Colonel Crawford had no trouble on Friday night, as it used its impressive rushing attack to take down the Cubs.

For the Eagles, Blake Treisch and Trevor Shawber combined for over 270 yards rushing and five touchdowns.

As for the Cubs, quarterback Jeb Grover added 144 yards on the ground and touchdown. Lucas’ defense allowed over 300 total rushing yards on the night. The Eagles rolled in this late-season nonconference matchup, 47-20.

“I said all week to our kids and different media outlets I talked to, it was going to be a battle of the trenches and they (Colonel Crawford) won the battle of the trenches tonight. They were better up front than us, they established the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball and put us in catch-up mode, but not only in catch-up mode but keeping the ball from us,” Lucas coach Scott Spitler said.

Colonel Crawford was able to keep Lucas’ potent offense in check, the Eagles held Lucas to under 200 yards rushing on 34 total Cubs’ carries. Colonel Crawford coach Ryan Teglovic was proud of the way his line controlled the game.

“They had to have tremendous focus, we have seen a lot of defensive fronts from Lucas over there, we’ve seen five-man front, four-man front, we’ve seen them do a lot of different things, so our offensive line had to be well prepared, they had to communicate, they’ve done a great job all year, they did another great job tonight,” Teglovic said.

Treisch put up 182 yards and four scores, hitting on two runs of over 40 yards. His ability to find a hole and consistently gain positive yardage was a big boost for his team tonight. Shawber added 95 of his own yards and one score. Their coach was impressed they could continue their stellar year tonight against a strong Lucas front.

“We came in tonight with Blake (Treisch), I think as the leading rusher in the league, and we’re one of the top rush offenses in the league. Those guys, have done a great job all year, they run the ball hard, they’re selfless, they don’t care who has more carries when they get the ball they run hard and stay after it. They’ve played well for us all year, our offensive line has been phenomenal all year, a lot of seniors up there and they’ve just done a great job,” Teglovic said.

Overall, Teglovic was happy with his team’s performance against a high-quality opponent.

“Well, I’m just really proud of our kids, we had a great week of practice. They knew this was a big game coming in here and playing a really good football team, we’ve got the utmost respect for coach Spitler and Lucas and what they’ve done here over the last couple years in regards to building this football program up. We knew we would have to come in and play with our A-game and I thought our guys played very well,” Teglovic said.